The temperature on May 10, 1884 was about 17.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
Day of marriage August 19, 1911
The temperature on August 19, 1911 was between 11.1 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
Day of death August 8, 1949
The temperature on August 8, 1949 was between 11.4 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 20 » Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
April 5 » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
June 8 » Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
July 27 » Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
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